Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/bīr

This Proto-Turkic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Turkic

**Proto-Turkic cardinal numbers**
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Cardinal : bīr Ordinal* : *birinči

Numeral

*bīr

one

Descendants

Oghur:
- Bulgar: بر‎ (bir)
  - Chuvash: пӗр (pĕr)
Common Turkic:

Arghu:
- Khalaj: bîr, bî
Oghuz:
- Old Anatolian Turkish: بر‎ (bir)
  - Azerbaijani: bir
  - Ottoman Turkish: بر‎ (bir, “one”)
    - Turkish: bir
    - Gagauz: bir
- Turkmen: bir
- Salar: bir
Karluk:
- Karakhanid:
  - Khorezmian Turkic:
    - Chagatai:
      - Uyghur: بىر‎ (bir)
      - Uzbek: bir
Kipchak:
- North Kipchak:
  - Bashkir: бер (ber)
  - Tatar: бер (ber) / ber
- South Kipchak:
  - Kipchak-Nogai:
    - Karakalpak: bir
    - Kazakh: бір (bır)
    - Nogai: бир (bir)
  - Kyrgyz-Kipchak:
    - Southern Altai: бир (bir)
    - Kyrgyz: бир (bir)
- West Kipchak:
  - Crimean Tatar: бир (bir), bir
  - Karachay-Balkar: бир (bir)
  - Karaim: бир
  - Krymchak: быр
  - Kumyk: бир (bir)
Siberian:
- Old Turkic: 𐰋𐰃𐰼‎ (b²ir² /bir/)
- Old Uyghur: 𐽼𐽶𐽾 (pir)
  - Western Yugur: per
- North Siberian:
  - Dolgan: биир (bīr)
  - Yakut: биир (biir)
- South Siberian:
  - Chulym: пир (pir)
  - Altai-Yenisei Turkic:
    - Northern Altai: бир (bir), пир (pir) (dialect), вир (vir) (dialect)
  - Sayan Turkic:
    - Tofa: бір, бірәә
    - Tuvan: бир (bir)
  - Yenisei Turkic:
    - Khakas: пір (pìr)
    - Shor: пир (pir)

References

Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*bi̯uri”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill